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    Best MicroATX home server case?

    Have a look at this one, it is also available in black and the price is nice. ________ Subaru Legacy Specifications
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    Router + USB HDD or Dedicated NAS for smooth video streaming

    if you want to BT with more than a 1MByte/sec - use a PC ________ Free Wordpress Themes
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    Pluscom NAS-STR8132 Help Needed

    Last year I bought the same garbage under a different name, NS-347S. It died the same way during firmware update - it hanged and wound not finish. Now it only usable as an external USB disk, so I use it this way. I did not bother with the warranty, as when it worked it was so slow it was not...
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    HELP - Disappearing Computers

    Check if the firewalls on the windows computers are on, and if yes - allow exception for file sharing. Are all the computers in the same windows workgroup? ________ Vapir no2 vaporizer
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    Outdoor Marina Wireless Access

    If possible, use a cable and place second access point/router down the hill. I read not so good reviews about Belkin routers, I would buy different brand. ________ Vaporizer Reviews
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    Laptop as NAS?

    The USB speed is practically limited to ~25-30 MB/sec. When I download torrents using my laptop (3 yr old, Sempron 3100+, 4000 rpm drive), the laptop drive gets overloaded with about 2 MB/sec. So, you would be either limited by the laptop drive (if it is older generation), or by the...
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    Attached Storage Testing

    OK, so I see it would very much depend on the CPU itself :) Still it is important information. May be to test with somewhat powerful, any dual-core, and with an Atom or Nano. Otherwise we would not know if the low-power processors can handle that load, I think they would not. ________...
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    Attached Storage Testing

    1 I think that if the CPU is loaded 100% then it is limiting the transfer speed 2 If I use a low-powered laptop as a torrent client via attached USB drive I would like to know if the laptop would be usable for anything else. ________ MFLB
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    Attached Storage Testing

    CPU usage % would be good too. ________ Easy Vape Vaporizer
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    A wireless router with more than 4 giga-bit LAN ports?

    No, it does not. Add a switch after the router to get more ports. ________ COSTA
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    Yet another Network/NAS speed question

    You may also try a different set of network cables - it might be that you are using 4-wire cables, good for 100MBit connection, but not for gigabit ________ NX250
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    Laptop as NAS?

    You could attach an external USB drive and use the laptop drive only for the operating system. ________ CHRYSLER PACIFICA SPECIFICATIONS
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    Single versus 2 drive NAS - performance

    In general, you should not. Actually RAID sometimes makes the NAS run slower - depends on the RAID mode. RAID0 would make it faster, RAID1 slower. But the difference in both cases is not much. It depends more on the hardware used inside - CPU and RAM. I think the best guide here on the site is...
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    how fast should wireless networking be?

    External hard drives on USB do 25-30 MBytes / sec = 240 MBits /sec (again much less than the advertised USB speed of 480 MBit/sec). So you get about 20x the speed of wireless. If you use Firewire, you will get up to 40 MBytes /sec, and on ESATA - up to the drive speed, i.e. with a new drive up...
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    how fast should wireless networking be?

    700MBytes = 700 * 8 = 5600 Mbits 7 min = 7 * 60 = 420 sec 5600 MBits / 420 sec = 13.33 Mbit / sec This is normal speed for 11g connection. The advertised 54 MBit / sec for 11g connection has been never achieved. The reality was at most half of the advertised speed. Higher speeds possible...
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